Bertrand Tavernier Overview

Biography

Bertrand Tavernier quit law school to write film criticism for Cahiers du Cinema and other major journals, worked as an assistant director and publicist (e.g., for Jean-Pierre Melville) and authored a couple of books on American cinema before making his first feature, "The Clockmaker" (1973). Adapted from a Georges Simenon novel (and transposed from the USA to Tavernier's home town),...